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United States Patent | 5,591,472 |
Cummins, deceased | January 7, 1997 |
Bakery dough continuously emergent from a dough-handling machine is cut into successive pieces of uniform weight by apparatus which involves a nozzle containing a downwardly directed extrusion orifice having a shape that is oblong about a line of elongation. A taut cutting wire aligned in a direction parallel to the line of elongation is caused to move in a reciprocating manner across the orifice in a path that is transverse to the line of elongation.
Inventors: | Cummins, deceased; Donald L. (late of Mechanicsville, VA) |
Assignee: | Cummins Eagle, Inc. (Ashland, VA) |
Appl. No.: | 516170 |
Filed: | August 17, 1995 |
Current U.S. Class: | 426/503; 425/311; 425/382R; 425/382.4; 426/516 |
Intern'l Class: | A21D 006/00; A23P 001/00 |
Field of Search: | 426/503,516,518 425/308,382 R,382.4,311 |
3646894 | Mar., 1972 | Hasten et al. | 426/503. |
4332538 | Jun., 1982 | Campbell | 425/311. |
4424236 | Jan., 1984 | Campbell | 426/231. |
4449908 | May., 1984 | Campbell | 425/204. |
4517212 | May., 1985 | Campbell | 426/503. |
4948611 | Aug., 1990 | Cummins | 426/503. |
4960601 | Oct., 1990 | Cummins | 426/504. |
5046940 | Sep., 1991 | Cummins | 425/311. |